Gevorgyan stands accused of pressuring a member of the Armenia’s Constitutional Court to uphold the official election results that recognized Serzh Sargsyan as president.
The country’s Special Investigative Service petitioned the lower court to arrest Harutyunyan, now in Moscow for medical treatment, for covering up evidence that army units were dispatched to Yerevan and that they fired on protesters.
A Yerevan court today refused to grant bail to Manvel Grigoryan, a retired Armenian Army general charged with illegal arms possession and embezzlement.
Armenia’s Special Investigative Service (SIS) has filed a petition to detain former Deputy Prime Minister Armen Gevorgyan, charged with obstructing justice in the wake of Armenia’s disputed 2008 presidential election.
Arsen Mkrtchyan, Grigoryan’s lawyer, told reporters that his client isn’t receiving proper medical care while in detention. Ambulance staff said they saw no need to hospitalize the 62-year-old ex-general.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals today ruled in favor of detaining former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan, charged with usurping state power during the March 1, 2008 post-election public protests.
Armenia’s Court of Appeals will issue its decision on Friday, December 7, whether to detain ex-Armenian President Robert Kocharyan, charged with usurping state power during the March 1, 2008 post-election public protests.
Kocharyan’s lawyers argued that Mkhitaryan was selected to preside over the case by lottery, a procedure not envisaged by the law.
Armenia’s Court of Cassation has decided to send the matter of whether to detain former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan, who has been charged with “usurping state power” during the March 2008 post-election public protests, back to the Court of Ap
Today, Armenian Court of Cassation decided to take into custody again Vachagan Ghazaryan, Serzh Sargsyan’s former security staff chief.
Banduryan was arrested for discharging his revolver in a Yerevan nightclub on October 13.
All but Harutyunyan were released after Nikol Pashinyan came to power in Armenia in the spring of this year.
Armenian NSS Press Secretary told Hetq that the man, born in 1975 and currently held at NSS, aimed to blow himself up.
Levon Baghdasaryan, attorney for jailed ex-Armenian Army General Manvel Grigoryan, told reporters today in Yerevan that Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan violated his client’s right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty.
A Yerevan court today decided to keep Manvel Grigoryan, charged with illegal arms possession and embezzlement, in pre-trial detention for another two months.
Sasna Tzrer member Pavel Manukyan has been released from trial detention after paying AMD 1 million ($2,060) bail.
The body, with a gunshot wound to the head, was found today in a stone manufacturing plant in the Davtashen district A pistol was found nearby.
Police in Armenia report that former National Assembly MP Karo Karapetyan, a member of the Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) was gunned down late last night at an eatery in Yerevan’s Nork Marash district.
Pavel Manukyan and Armen Bilyan, two members of the Sasna Tzrer group on trial for seizing a Yerevan police building in 2016, have declared a hunger strike.
Hetq has been informed that protests against yesterday’s approved bill to alter the parliament’s rules of procedure have broken out in towns across Armenia.
Armenia’s Investigative Committee reports that conscript soldier Aghasi Mkrtchyan, a junior sargent, was killed due to the negligence of another solider.
This was the answer given to this reporter by Hakob Sahakyan, president of the 1/19 polling station electoral commission, where Margaryan is registered to vote.
Reputed crime figure Artur Asatryan (aka Don Pipo), arrested on June 16 on kidnapping and illegal arms possession charges, was released today from pre-trial detention after paying bail of AMD 50 million ($103,640).
After the raid, Hakobyan told reporters that the reason for the police search was because the website was the first to publish a secretly taped telephone conversation between National Security Service Chief Artur Vanetsyan and Special Investigative Service Chief Sasun Khachatryan.
A Yerevan court today released six people, arrested on November 25, 2015 in Yerevan’s Nork district and charged with illegal arms possession and conspiracy to commit a series of serious crimes in Armenia, from pre-trial detention.
“We have concrete evidence that Armenian military personnel fired automatic weapons in the direction of houses on Leo Street after someone tossed a Molotov cocktail from a balcony. In other words, the army fully participated in those events,” Khachatryan said.
A Yerevan court today released Hayk Sargsyan, the nephew of former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, who has been charged with attempted murder and illegal arms possession, after paying bail of 50 million drams ($103,000).
Shant Harutyunyan, the leader of the Tseghakron political party arrested on November 5, 2013 for organizing a march in Yerevan entitled “The Revolution of Values” and sentenced to six years imprisonment, was finally given the opportunity today to hold a press conference from within the walls of the Vardashen Correctional Facility.
A Yerevan court is today reviewing the pre-trial detention issue of Hayk Sargsyan, nephew of former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan, who has been charged with attempted murder and illegal arms possession.
Supporters of Shant Harutyunyan, the leader of the Tseghakron political party arrested on November 5, 2013 for organizing a march in Yerevan entitled “The Revolution of Values” and sentenced to six years imprisonment, demonstrated outside the Prosecutor General’s Office today and called for his release.
A Yerevan court today issued AMD 20 million bail for Edward Babayan, a bodyguard for businessman MP Gagik Tsarukyan, who was arrested on July 8 on charges that he beat a man in the office of the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Armenia.
A Yerevan court today approved lengthening the pre-trial detention of Artur Asatryan (aka Don Pipo), the shadowy criminal figure arrested on June 16 on kidnapping and illegal arms possession charges, for another two months.
Lalayan was a member of the Reject Serzh and My Step movements that spearheaded political protests this spring leading to the resignation of Serzh Sargsyan as prime minister on April 22.
Defendant Pavel Manukyan told the court that Gagik Mkrtchyan, the policeman who was shot and later died during the July 2016 seizure of a Yerevan police building, was not shot by Armen Bilyan, who has been so charged, but by Edward Grigoryan.
Marineh Papyan, a former coordinator of the European Union’s grants programs in Armenia arrested in April 2017 on swindling millions of drams from various EU programs over the years, is eligible for release from pre-trial detention if she pays AMD 10 million bail.
Why Asatryan, now in detention, never appeared remains a mystery. Did he simply refuse to be taken to the court or was there another reason involved? The court failed to provide details.
A Yerevan court today decided to keep Manvel Grigoryan, charged with illegal arms possession and embezzlement, in pre-trial detention.
Manvel Grigoryan was brought to Yerevan’s Nor Nork Administrative Court today just hours after Armenia’s parliament stripped the former army general of his immunity as a legislator, thus allowing him to be prosecuted on illegal arms possession and embezzlement charges.
Following the overturn by Armenian Cassation Court earlier today, former Artsakh Defense Minister Samvel Babayan was released from detention.
Earlier today, Armenia’s Cassation Court overturned a lower court’s verdict sentencing former Artsakh Defense Minister Samvel Babayan and two others, Sanasar Gabrielyan and Armen Poghosyan for money laundering and attempting to smuggle a portable surface-to-air missile into Armenia and sent the case to the lowest court for a new examination.
While the prosecuting attorney did not object to Nazaryan’s release, Hasmik Voskanyan, the wife of police officer Gagik Mkrtchyan, who was wounded during the seizure of the police building and later died in hospital, described the court’s decision as unjust.
Two Yelk faction MPs paid 500,000 drams each and provided their personal guarantees to get Areg Kyureghyan, a member of the Sasna Dzrer group that seized a Yerevan police building in July 2016, released from pre-trial detention.
Armenia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has decided to temporarily suspend the administrative powers of the mayor and deputy mayor of Masis pending a court case in which they are criminally charged with organizing and participating in assaults on April 22 against pro-Nikol Pashinyan supporters who were peacefully marching in Yerevan.
NSS Press Center Chief Samson Galstyan relayed the news to Hetq. The underlying reason for Varbedian appearing on an official blacklist was that he belonged to a cult that threatened the security of the Armenia
The court has yet to issue a decision on whether to keep Masis Deputy Mayor Karen Ohanyan, also arrested on the same charge, in detention before his trial.
A Yerevan court today released Gevorg Hambardzumyan, who was arrested and charged with his cousin Masis Mayor Davit Hambardzumyan for attacking pro-Pashinyan supporters on April 22, from pre-trial detention.
A Yerevan court has postponed until tomorrow its decision whether to keep Masis Mayor Davit Hambardzumyan and Masis Deputy Mayor Karen Ohanyan, charged with organizing and participating in assaults on April 22 against pro-Nikol Pashinyan supporters who were peacefully marching in Yerevan, behind bars pending the conclusion of the investigation.
Masis Mayor Davit Hambardzumyan today was criminally charged with organizing and participating in assaults on April 22 against pro-Nikol Pashinyan supporters who were peacefully marching in Yerevan.
National Security Service (NSS) Press Secretary Samson Galstyan has confirmed the news that NSS employees have converged on the main office of the Yerevan City chain of supermarkets to investigate a number of alleged infractions taking place within the chain owned by Republican Party of Armenia MP Samvel Aleksanyan.